PORTLAND, Ore. and ARMONK,
N.Y., July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new platform for
developers to collaborate with IBM on a newly released set of open
source technologies. IBM will release 50 projects to the open
source community to speed enterprise adoption and spur a new class
of cloud innovations around mobile, analytics and other high-growth
areas.
developerWorks Open is a cloud-based environment for developers
to access emerging IBM technologies, technical expertise and
collaborate with a global network to accelerate projects.
Developers can not only expect to download the code, but also have
access to blogs, videos, tools and techniques to accelerate their
efforts. The goal is to enable them to act with speed and have the
confidence to build and deploy open source apps working with
clients' demanding business requirements.
The current model of development in the open source community
lacks a strategic focus business requirements. To address this, IBM
is launching a set of projects in industries including healthcare,
mobile, retail, insurance and banking that meet that meet
real-world business challenges.
Today's news represents the next step of IBM's commitment to the
open source community. IBM has more than 20 years of leadership in
the open source movement, and thousands developers certified to
engage in open source development. IBM is bringing this initiative
forward to remove the obstacles that inhibit developers from
turning open source code into sustainable applications that solve
real business issues.
Among the broad range of technologies already deployed on
developerWorks Open, IBM is making available projects in key areas
to help bridge the development gap. IBM will also offer these
services on its programming platform for cloud software
development, Bluemix.
For Instance, IBM is open sourcing a number of apps from its
MobileFirst portfolio that will assist developers in the
healthcare, retail insurance and banking mobile markets:
- IBM Ready App for Healthcare that tracks patient
progress for at-home physical therapy programs via mobile
device.
- IBM Ready App for Retail personalizes and reshapes the
specialty retail store shopping experience through direct line of
communication
- IBM Ready App for Insurance improves the relationship
between homeowners and insurers and uses Internet of Things sensors
to synch home with utilities.
- IBM Ready App for Banking helps financial institution's
address the mobile needs business owners and attract
prospects.
Additionally, IBM is open sourcing several Analytics
technologies including:
- Activity Streams which provides developers with a
standard model and encoding format for describing how users engage
with both the application and with one another.
- Agentless System Crawler offer a unified cloud
monitoring and analytics framework that enables visibility into all
types of cloud platforms and runtimes
- IBM Analytics for Apache Spark puts the full analytics
power and capabilities of Spark at your fingertips. Beta now
available on Bluemix.
IBM will also continue to open source cloud data services,
including:
- IBM Object Storage on Bluemix Service Broker which can
be used to integrate OpenStack Swift with Cloud Foundry, allowing
fast access to cloud data without needing to know where the data is
stored
The creation of developerWorks Open comes at an important time
for cloud developers. Organizations are wrestling with getting the
most out of their multiple clouds environments. For instance, a
developer building cloud applications on Bluemix, that requires
storing videos and repair photos for an insurance accident claim
application, may have difficulty making a choice and then
implementing. developerWorks Open helps simplify that choice and
provides the reassurance that this has industry support.
"IBM firmly believes that open source is the foundation of
innovative application development in the cloud," IBM Vice
President of Cloud Architecture and Technology Dr. Angel Diaz said. "With developerWorks Open, we
are open sourcing additional IBM innovations that we feel have the
potential to grow the community and ecosystem and eventually become
established technologies."
Currently, IBM participates in and contributes to more than 150
open source projects. These projects include Spark, OpenStack,
Cloud Foundry, Open Contain Project, Node.js, CouchDb, Linux,
Eclipse and an already established relationship with Apache. Open
source projects increase the skills and knowledge base around IBM's
software product set. developerWorks Open is the next step in IBM's
strategy to help businesses create, use, and innovate around
cloud computing systems.
Scott Cook
IBM Media Relations
Phone: 312-669-4743
Email: scotty@us.ibm.com
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